On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 04:25 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> It's quite sad that this uses GFP_ATOMIC.  Because GFP_ATOMIC is quite
> unreliable.
> 
> Is it just not possible to use GFP_KERNEL here?
I thought of this problem before,
but GFP_ATOMIC is required in some cases.

> If _any_ of the callers of this function could have used GFP_KERNEL
> then we
> could at least pass the gfp_t into this function to allow it to use
> the
> stronger form where it can do so.
> 
That makes sense. I'll send an incremental patch soon.

Thanks,
Rui
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